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Kerr in this recent post , about how research in educational technology could be improved, but I have disagreements around the edges, enough that I think more discussion is warranted. So I agree that educational research should be much better informed about work outside the field.

In the past couple of days, I’ve come across two different initiatives to improve education. And certainly our education system can stand improvement. The post A solid education platform appeared first on Learnlets.

Their feelings about the future differed by educational level. 71% of Americans with a college education or more said that they have the right skills to succeed in the 21st century, compared to 42% of those with a high school education or less.

Or rather, we get educated out of it.” Education does not destroy creativity. There is a certain irony that the most popular TED Talk — Do schools kill creativity? — is seriously questioned in a TEDx talk over a decade later.

While experts don’t generally agree on much, they’re pretty much of one mind when it comes to the growing importance of skills and education in our 21st century digital economy. However, existing education and training programs won’t be enough given the demands for life-long adult learning.

Education, and specifically the art of designing, developing and delivering it, is far too often interpreted as an exercise in content depth. Customer Education departments are stuck in the Cenozoic era. Another example concerns internal education departments.

We are conditioned at a very young age, through the kindergarten-to-higher-education continuum, to believe that it is our individual accomplishments that allow us the chance to achieve great things in life. book education flat army learning hierarchy

Between now and 2030 you will see a revolution in education. . Public support, and tax money, will return to both K-12 schools and higher education. These are very tough times for education, even as the importance of education is paramount.

Short term functionalism, and its impact on our capacity to operate as a knowledge economy are to my mind one of the main issues in modern education. It is not that we should not have vocational education and commercial focus, the opposite in fact.

The following was prompted by a discussion on how education has the potential to be disrupted. Some thoughts I lobbed in another forum (lightly edited): Mark Warschauer, in his great book Learning in the Cloud (which has nothing to do with ‘the cloud’), pointed out that there are only 3 things wrong with public education: the curricula, the pedagogy, and the way they use tech; other than that they’re fine.

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At a Stanford education conference this morning, speakers made presentation after presentation without once involving the audience, not even asking for questions. I didn’t mention my suspicion that STEM dumbs down education.

Between now and 2030 you will see a revolution in education. . Public support, and tax money, will return to both K-12 schools and higher education. These are very tough times for education, even as the importance of education is paramount.

We used the hand signals of the Occupy movement as our public backchannel as we focused on reforming education. After sorting through the current landscape of education and barriers to progress, we brought up examples of people, sites, and projects that are getting it right.

I’ll focus my discussions on two in particular: Technology and Work; and Education, Training, and the Labor Market. While many new jobs will be created, the higher-paying ones will require greater levels of education and training. Education, Training and the Labor Market.

A few weeks ago I read a very interesting article in The Chronicle of Higher Education , - Why Colleges Need to Embrace the Apprenticeship. Lots has been written about the critical importance of a good education in our knowledge-based digital economy.

I've commented on the role of higher education in helping rich people become more rich. There's a groups of people who I would characterize as creating the real change in educational technology, not one of whom has any real connection to the well-funded world of elite universities. When I read about support for charter schools, educational disruption, direct instruction, and content knowledge over critical thinking.

In fall, I’ll be running a course on edX with a few colleagues on Digitizing Higher Education. Here’s the pitch: Higher education faces tremendous change pressure and the resulting structures that are now being formed will alter the role of universities in society for the next several generations. to actively research systemic transformation in higher education. Catherine Ngugi (Open Education Africa).

As the authors , Goldin & Kutarna, say, “Don’t just get an education. When I first encountered the web I was certain it would change the world. Today there is little doubt that networked society is developing into a very different world than the pre-internet days.

He cites a recent article by MIT economist David Autor which points out that a college-educated worker can expect an additional lifetime earning of over $500,000 compared to one whose highest degree is a high school diploma. As for the question, is a college education still worth it?,

I liken our dominant educational structure as the offspring of a shotgun wedding between industrialists who needed literate workers to operate their machinery, and progressives who wanted to lift up the common person from poverty and drudgery.

A core part of Cognitive Edge's mission/business is education and our courses have developed over the years in a messily coherent way. I nearly a decade of existence we have built a software and education business on the back of revenue without VC investment.

Educational datamining and learning analytics are getting substantial attention in education. Learning Analytics: Higher Education With learning analytics in particular, the term has come to mean anything and everything that involves data in learning.

The list focuses primarily on the use of technology in educational settings and on teaching, learning, and educational administration. Clayton R Wright has produced the latest version of his well-known and well-regarded conference list.

This invite was then followed a week later with a link to a post by Ted Mitchell, Undersecretary of Education, on Innovation and Quality in Higher Education , to help prepare for the conversation. Higher education generally has no clue about what’s brewing in the marketplace as a whole. The change pressures that exist now are not ones that the existing higher education model can ignore. This gets at the heart of a challenge in higher education.

In my 40 years in the field, I have not seen as bizarre a continuing education story as this one. A for-profit online course provider named Cengage is offering the same online courses through two different nonprofit systems: 1.Continuing education departments in colleges, universities and schools, which charge fees of around $100 per class. The courses offered through continuing education programs Cengage calls "Ed2Go."

A glance at the latest US employment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals sharp differences in unemployment rates by educational attainment : college degree or higher: 4.3%; associate degree or some college: 8.2%; high school graduates, no college: 9.6%; and no high school diploma: 14.3%. Just about every such study points to a similar trend : for the foreseeable future, the US economy will need better educated workers with specific skill requirements.

The MindCET blog has posted a post of mine about why VR seems so attractive to educational technology folks. Here’s the beginning: By now we’re accustomed to the idea that the Internet enables us to spread education out across large physical distances. But just as spreading Nutella means thinning it, so does spreading education seem to require making the connections less substantial and real.

“The business of Education is education; the business of Business is business.“ “ Continuous learning and performance improvement lies at the heart of any business – not packaged training courses, programmes or events.

In early February, I had the pleasure of delivering a presentation to University of Victoria on the state of higher education and challenges of fragmentation. Thanks for Valerie Irvine and Jillianne Code from TIE Lab and the Faculty of Education for hosting me.

On Monday, Oct 8, we kick of the Current State/Future of Higher Education open online course. This course will run for six weeks, covering these topics. We’re using Desire2Learn as a platform, in addition to the gRSSHopper software (developed by Stephen Downes and used in our open courses since 2008). If you want to join, registration is open: [link

For the first time, the Nine Shift seminar introduced an example of a new model for higher education. Nine Shift predicts customized learning plans will be at the core of the new model for higher education.

Now in all fairness to the rest on the education community in Canada, it's not like anyone hasn't thought of this before. Even if only one such piece of educational content were created, it could be accessed by each of the thousands of educational institutions teaching the same material. The standards bodies focused on how to work with digital resources, combining them into course packages and educational models.

Higher education faces a value crisis. Digital educational content in itself is not worth money. The College Conspiracy video, with over 2 million views, argues that higher education is basically a scam. Similarly, the Higher Education Price Index (.pdf)

I mostly focus on workplace learning here, but I want to put together some of my previous thoughts on public education. If we change how we think about public education, we may also be able to improve how we support workplace learning.

I’m involved in several, including Current State/Future of Education (non-credit). I’m also teaching an open online course with Rory McGreal on Openness in Education (if interested, register here ). It’s a busy fall with open online courses. See the course schedule for more information on topics. We’re still getting content on the site posted, including finding ways to steal ds106′s daily create (we’re going for weekly

Using the perspective of the 70:20:10 model (Experience, Exposure, Education) we should focus our efforts on maximizing our workplace experiences for learning. Educational institutions let graduates walk out the door and then get to work, with co-op programs being the exception.

Educational experts are working diligently to turn out well-rounded graduates, while. As we head into this 21st century of education, we hope this myth of a 'well-rounded education' for all is finally pounded flat.

Beyond STEM, 10% of 2017 PhDs were in the Humanities and Arts, 9% in Education, and 5% in various other disciplines. Data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows the value of a PhD education. It typically takes 7 to 9 years to get a PhD, - often longer in the humanities and education. In 1986 US federal laws prohibited mandatory age retirements in higher education, so t enured professors have been staying in their jobs for a longer number of years.

Athabasca University has the benefit of offering one of the first doctor of education programs, fully online, in North America. The program is cohort-based and accepts 12 students annually. I’ve been teaching in the doctorate program for several years (Advanced Research Methods as well as, occasionally, Teaching & Learning in DE) and supervise 8 (?!) doctoral students currently. Applications for the fall 2017 start are now being accepted with a January 15, 2017 deadline.

I had predicted for years that for-profit education providers, who once (e.g. Christopher Whittle) tried to take over K-12 elementary schools, and who still garner huge tax payer monies in higher education (e.g. University of Phoenix), would pursue profit over the best interests of our 1,000 continuing education programs, members of LERN, in nonprofit schools and colleges. The story I researched this last week for LERN and our 5,000 members was almost unbelievable. .